Part Three, Chapters One through Four Summary

Six months have passed since the previous chapter. Felix is on a ship arriving at Dar-es-Salaam. He is now a lieutenant in the British Army. Once ashore he thinks about how he is now closer to Gabriel and how things will soon be resolved. Felix gets conflicting advice on where to go to join his unit. In fact, everyone he speaks to gives a different answer. He boards a train and as he watches scenery out the window, he thinks about the previous six months.

A week after Charis's funeral Felix went to see a relative in the British Army. Felix asked simply for a commission in any unit fighting in East Africa. Two weeks later Felix received orders to report to Officer Training Corps. For three months he worked hard, always thinking...